Des Herrn Abts Vidaure Kurzgefasste geographische, natürliche und bürgerliche Geschichte des Königreichs Chile,

by: Molina, Giovanni Ignazio, 1740-1829; Gomez de Vidaurre, Felipe, 1740-1823?; Jagemann, Christian Joseph, 1735-1804

Publication date: 1782

Topics: Natural history, Mapuche Indians, Indian linguistics

Publisher: Hamburg, : bey Carl Ernst Bohn.

Collection: jcbindigenous; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: John Carter Brown Library

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: German

Volume: Copy 1

Authorship of this edition in German erroneously ascribed to Felipe Gomez de Vidaurre ; correct author assignment according to Backer-Sommervogel, Streit, Palau y Dulcet and Palmer

Translation, by Christian Joseph Jagemann, of: Compendio della storia geografica, naturale, e civile del regno del Chile. Bologna, 1776

Caption title p. 9: Kurzgefasste geographische, natürliche und bürgerliche Geschichte des Königreichs Chile

Signatures: A-N (A1 verso blank)

Plate unnumbered, combining map and plan (Tavola 10) of the original edition in Italian. Legend and names in German

Text divided into two parts: "Erster Theil, worin in drey Absätzen die Lage des Landes, das Klima, und die merkwürdigsten Produkte aus den drey Reichen der Natur beschrieben werden." (p. 9-107. 1 map); "Zweyter Theil von den verschiedenen Völkern, von ihrer bürgerlichen und militärischen Verfassung, Religion, Sitten und Gebräuchen, und von den spanischen Provinzen und Städten in Chile." (p. 108-208)

Includes two paragraphs on the Mapuche language (p. 115-119)

Sabin

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800

Backer-Sommervogel

Streit, R. Bib. missionum

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.)

Palmer, P.M. German books on America

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 (02675) bound in contemporary half calf and paper boards

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 (03082; 20 cm.) bound in contemporary quarter sheep and paper boards